“The commute was an ordeal.” “That phone call with customer service was an ordeal.”
You don’t have to be grateful for the pain. But you can be curious about what it’s carving out of you. Ordeal
But a true ordeal—the kind that shakes your bones and tests your spirit—is something else entirely. It’s the health crisis, the business collapse, the messy divorce, the caregiving season that never seems to end. “The commute was an ordeal
“I’ve been there. Keep going. The other side exists.” Have you survived an ordeal that changed you? Share one insight below—someone else is in the middle of theirs right now and needs to read it. the business collapse